The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-02-22
A NEW PARL0R GAME.
WHOEVER FIRST COMES ALONG WITH
1T WILL GET RICH.
Any Trivial Little Thing Easily becomes
a Craze-Fun With Bean Bags-Para-
phernaIia of the Game-Drawing
Pig.

phernalia of the Game-Drawing a
Pig.
"The man who will invent a new parlor
game that will catch the fancy Of society
needn't trouble himself about the little cares
of this hfc," said society man. "All the
circles high md low are thirsting for some
thing new, and whoever gets in with it first
is sure 10 make fortune. Now, to show you
how easily trivial little thing becomes
craze. ! have only TO can your attention to
the bean bag game. 1t isn't the old bean bag
that you toss from one row or line OF persons
TO another, but a game that requires little
skill in throwing. That's the secret OF the
whole thing-the throwing. You want a
number OF bean bags of different sizes, piece
of painted canvas, with a hole in it, and APP
planes to stretch the canvas between the
folding doors dividing two parlors, and when
you've got them you've got the new craze
complete I've seen twenty married men
and women throwing bags at the hole in the
canvas for two hours and they seemed to
enjoy it so much that they were reluctant to
stop and go home II you hear business
man complain OF sore shoulder you can
truthfully suspect him of bean throwing.
There is a sort Of excitement about the game
that makes it popular, but it wont run very
long Men like it because they want to
demonstrate TO their wives that they can
throw straighter than women; also because
it makes them think of the days when shin
ing silk hat was mark for a SNOWFALL or
brick.
TEN SIZES OF BEAN BAGS.
"Of course there are prizes for the best
throwers as there are for the best players OF
progressive euchre, and once the things gets
in motion everybody does his best 10 get tho
best prize. There are ten sizes of bags, and
they count from 10 TO 100, the latter Of course
being the largest bag. a thrower begins
With the ten, and if he succeeds in putting 1t
through the hole in TIE canvas he tries to
send the twenty bag after it, and continues
to throw until he scoresS miss, when he has
TO give way TO the next person on the list.
The paraphernaia of the game, as you can
see, is simple, yet it can be made to cost
good deal of money if any anybody has a no
ton for costly things. am credibly informed
that the genius who invented 1t has already
made 500 900 from the manufacture and sale
I
increasing every day.
There is another form Of amusement that
is coming into favor very rapidly, though it
isn't nearly as popular as the bean bag. 1t Is
the drawing of objects on paper and states
blindfoded. was at party the other night
when a contest Of this kind was gotten up by
some OF the ladies, and it proved a source OF
genuine fun.
Now, began one Of the ladies who pro-
posed the game, Il will blindfold Mr.. NJ
and let him try to draw q pig Mr.. NJ
was accordingly blindfolded, a pencil was
put in his hand and he began to trace the
outlines of porler on a piece OF drawing
paper. 1t was funny, / tell you, to watch
that pig as he developed 1t. When he got
through and removed tho handkerchief from
his eyes TO catch a glimpse at his work he just
said. Rats, that amt pig. can do better
than that
ale was right. 1t wasn't a pig, and it
would have taken a greater genius than any
that saw il TO have lizened it TO any object TO
be found above ground. There were two or
three stock yards men in the party, men who
buy and sell hogs every day, and not one Of
them came nearer a pig than pig itself
could if il had a pencil All this may look
trivial to persons who don't get great deal
of parlor entertainment, but / assure you il
was good fun for everybody there. ltdoesnt
take much TO amuse people who are at all
inclined TO be domestic in their tastes, and the
simpler the game the more popular 1t VIII
become. That's why progressive euchre has
stood 50 long. Chicago Herald.